'Above Us' by MTC Cronin | States of Poetry Queensland - Series One

Above us we hear the windmill yelping, circling like a trapped dog while the house sits like a black skull on the hill. Above us the tombs are rising from their rest and travelling along the roads beneath trees turning sourly. Above us the wind flings uncountable seed into the dignified light tossed through the depths by a green moon rolling over and over in the shifting lens of the waves. Above us nakedness stretches forever against danger, ravishment and smoke. When we wake our lives are on fire. Above us only our sleepy souls drifting like reeds catching the air.

MTC Cronin

Recording

MTC Cronin has published twenty books (poetry, prose poems and essays). Recent collections include In Possession of Loss (Shearsman Books, 2014) and The Law of Poetry (Puncher & Wattmann, 2015), the latter of which was written over two decades.

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